Many ships have been named New York, including: Merchant ships , a 524-gross-register-ton Long Island Sound steamboat operating between New York and New Haven, Connecticut; later went to the Hudson River as a towboat, abandoned 1875. , in packet service between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina; later in the Gulf of Mexico, destroyed by a hurricane in 1846 , a transatlantic passenger liner of Glasgow & New York Steamship Company, wrecked in Scotland in 1858 , a transatlantic passenger liner of North German Lloyd; converted in 1875 to ship-rigged sailing vessel New York, and wrecked in 1891 , an excursion steamer of Hudson River Line, destroyed by fire in 1908 , named City of New York until 1893; later served in U.S. Navy as USS Harvard in the Spanish–American War, and as USS Plattsburg in World War I , a passenger ferry of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad destroyed by fire in 1932 , a seagoing tugboat 1941–1952, built as Catawissa for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and scrapped in 2008 , built for the Sandy Hook Pilots, later commissioned as , oil tanker, owned by Texaco until broken up in 1950. , former name of Pan Kraft, an American cargo ship bombed and sunk by Germany in 1942 , later name of 16,991 GRT transatlantic liner Tuscania , a passenger liner of Eastern Steamship Lines, sunk by the in 1942 , a transatlantic liner of Hamburg America Line, heavily damaged in 1945 , 779 GRT, industrial vessel, USCG ID 539474, winter station pilot boat owned by United NY Sandy Hook Pilots Assoc. Naval ships , a gundalow built on Lake Champlain in 1776 that participated in the Battle of Valcour Island. , a 36-gun frigate commissioned in 1800 and burned by the British in 1814. , a 74-gun ship of the line laid down in 1820 which never left the stocks and was burned in 1861. A screw sloop named Ontario laid down in 1863; renamed New York in 1869, and sold while still on the stocks, in 1888. , an armored cruiser commissioned in 1893, in action in the Spanish–American War, renamed to Saratoga in 1911, renamed Rochester in 1917, decommissioned in 1933, and scuttled in 1941. , a battleship laid down in 1911, commissioned in 1914, in action in both World Wars. Decommissioned in 1946 was used in both aerial and submerged atomic